The NSA can listen to your calls without a warrant

Before Congress could make comments against the NSA, the agency told lawmakers in a secret meeting that interpretation of federal surveillance law allows the NSA to listen to domestic and international calls. We're not just talking about metadata here, but both sides of a full conversation. This most likely includes your texts and emails. All that is required is an analyst to give his or her thumbs up and your phone call has a third party involved that you are you are unaware of.

This information comes from Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat who revealed last week the NSA's briefing on Capitol Hill. Nadler was stunned to hear that the only thing required for the NSA to listen in on your calls is an analyst's approval and does not require prior legal authorization. The NSA's annual budget is undisclosed but is believed to be in the range of $10 billion which allows the agency to own the technology giving it the ability to record all domestic and international calls.

According to a published report, the NSA has a listening post in Utah that enables it to go through billions of phone calls whether the call was originated in the U.S. or internationally. Carriers like AT&T that allow the agency to comb its servers, receive immunity from civil or criminal liability thanks to a law passed in 2008 which was renewed four years later. And while the law says that the NSA "may not intentionally target any person known at the time of acquisition to be located in the United States," some legal experts say that this can be interpreted to say that the NSA can grab as much domestic information as it wants, as long as it wasn't targeting a particular person.

UPDATE:According to information from the AP, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked by the NSA program and the program prevented terrorist activity in more than 20 countries. In addition, the Obama administration has clarified earlier information and says that despite Congressman Nadler's initial comments, a warrant is still required for law enforcement officials to listen in to your phone calls. However, theNSA can, with this approval, listen in to complete conversations and receive more than just the metadata involving a phone call.

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Because socialized medicine sucks. Experience both then you will see. Least efficient? Anytime the government gets involved in anything is when it becomes inefficient. It's still the best, but going down hill fast.

Just look at every other U.S. public agency or office (Federal or State) that are ALL swimming in inefficiency:
1. Social Security Administration / Medicare - TRAGIC
2. U.S. Postal Service - PATHETIC
3. U.S. Passport Office - ABYSMAL (unless you come across someone who knows what they are doing)
4. Department of Motor Vehicles (State) - I'm sure there are DMV's with competent employees somewhere but in New York DMV workers are just as bad as postal workers.

Just to name a few!! Health Care (Social or otherwise, under Federal guidance) will be what tips this country into mediocrity.

Bottom line: if you're dealing with civil employees (Federal or State or City), you may as speak the universal Section 8 language.

Go figure. Countries who have less money and spend a smaller percentage of it on healthcare actually have better healthcare systems. They probably have free market systems, except for, I don't know, basically all of them.

Story debunked by ZDNet (no link, since I am new, but search under new headline "Congressman denies report claiming NSA can listen to calls without warrants"):

Update at 2:50 p.m. ET on June 16: We're pulling the plug on this story, following Rep. Nadler's comments that debunk CNET's story. In a statement to our sister site, Nadler said: "I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant." We've left the amended article (post the previous update, below) in tact for transparency, but corrected the headline.

"the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans’ phone calls without a specific warrant."

This is a distinction without a difference. The warrant part is just the fig leaf that makes everything legal. How do you think the phone calls are listened to the moment a judge has signed the warrant?

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